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Marin Le Pen, the leader of France's Hardwright National Rally, said that she would seek

support from candidates of other parties

to form a government if her party failed to win an outright majority

after the second round of the parliamentary election this Sunday.

Polls suggest that RN, which won 33.2% of the vote in the first round,

will miss the threshold of 289 seats.

Left-wing and centrist parties have been forming strategic

alliances to consolidate the vote against the far right.

According to Lomond, a newspaper, more than 210 of their candidates have dropped out.

More than 100 people were killed in a stampede as a Hindu gathering in Hatras, a city

city in Hatras, a city in northern India, according to local officials.

Many women and children were among the casualties.

Fatal incidents are frequent at Indian religious festivals

where large crowds often squeeze into small spaces. Some 115 pilgrims died in a

stampede in Madhya Pradesh in 2013.

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